CWs arrested in Port Elizabeth Action to stop Israeli weapons

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Drop Site News video is short and very good!

Please Post Widely! 2nd Update:  All four arrested were released.

Photos of Port Elizabeth Action & Videos.
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

Ithaca, NY.   Why go to Port Elizabeth?  The port in Elizabeth, NJ, is the third-largest port in the US, with Maersk and Zimm trucks delivering weapons to be shipped to Israel's genocide. "We went to uphold law, both moral and legal law!" said Ellen Grady, one of four arrested. 

Last Friday, before dawn, an autonomous group of 100 people stopped truck traffic for 45 minutes as they stood on a major road in Port Elizabeth, near Newark Airport, with banners reading, "Stop Sending Weapons to a Genocide." It was a peaceful act in solidarity with the people of Gaza, the Global Sumud Flotilla, and many global port shutdowns, most notably in Italy.

Supplying these weapons for Israel’s genocide is a blatant violation of the U.S. War Crimes Act, the Leahy law, the Foreign Assistance Act, the Arms Export Control Act, and the Genocide Convention Implementation Act. To uphold these laws and prevent unlawful weapons shipments, protestors peacefully came to uphold all U.S. and international laws about genocide.

Trucks were backed up for miles for over an hour, witnessed by Ellen Grady as she was taken by car to the police station to be charged and released by noon that day. Ellen was one of four arrested, including Mark Scibilia-Carver, Teresa Grady, and Daniel Creamer.  Teresa Grady said, "I asked the police to stop the trucks and inspect them for weapons. They must be a part of stopping this illegal activity." 

In the last 24 hours, as we mark the beginning of the third year of genocide, another 95 Palestinians were killed in Gaza by Israel.  According to the U.N. Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, the latest comprehensive estimate of those brutally killed is 680,000, half of whom are children under 5 years old. 

Colombian President Gustavo Petros asked nations in the General Assembly to create a military peacekeeping force to stop Israel. The UN General Assembly's tool to stop a genocide is called Uniting for Peace, which can create a military peacekeeping force. But, think about this! Israel has 400 nuclear weapons and the backing of the US military. What peacekeeping force would be able to stand up to this? We saw the Italian military ship accompanying the Global Sumud Flotilla leave as they approached the red zone of Gaza's waters. As Mark Scibilia-Carver said, 'The non-violent way to stop a genocide is by stopping the shipment of weapons from here!" 

Contacts: 

Naji Al-Ali, thep...@tuta.com

Mary Anne Grady Flores, gradyf...@gmail.com

See from the Electronic Intifada: “Shipping giant Maersk supplies Israel with warplanes.” 

See from Middle East Monitor: “Italian dockworkers block ships bound for Israel amid Gaza flotilla tensions” which notes protests against ZIM, an Israeli shipping company. 

See IPA news release breaking down relevant U.S. laws. 

Videos from Before the arrests










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Mary Anne Grady Flores
Ithaca, NY 14850
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Ithaca Catholic Workers  /  Los Obreros Catolicas de Ithaca
"If you think one person can't be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito" -War Resister's League 

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic.  It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness... 
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.  If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction...And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.  The future is an infinite succession of presents and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."  -- Howard Zinn






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